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SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

Below are last week’s updates and new additions to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy(IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), and Wi-Phi Wireless…

July 27, 2015
A Database of Philosophical Ideas

PhilosophyIdeas is a searchable database of philosophical ideas compiled by Peter Gibson and built by Martin Berry. Users can search and sort ideas by theme, author, and…

July 25, 2015
We Are Not Human Individuals

Unbeknownst to many people, our emotions, cognition, behavior, and mental health are influenced by a large number of entities that reside in our bodies…

July 24, 2015
Philosophers Object to Heythrop’s Closing (updated)

The governing board of Heythrop College, a constituent college of the University of London whose mission is “to serve society through philosophy and theology,” met in late…

July 24, 2015
Reforming Refereeing (guest post by Aaron Garrett)

The following is a guest post* by Aaron Garrett, associate professor of philosophy at Boston University. Professor Garrett recently became editor of the History of…

July 23, 2015
Putting the “Ph” in Science PhDs

My goal is to put the Ph back into a PhD. I want to restore more philosophical thinking into the doctoral degrees that students…

July 22, 2015
More on the Benefits of Philosophy for Kids

An increasing number of American children from low-income backgrounds are coming to kindergarten lagging in both academic and non-cognitive skills critical to educational success…. Fortunately,…

July 22, 2015
High School Summer Philosophy Program

I’ve been teaching high school students a week’s worth of philosophy each summer for the past three years, and I’ve had tremendous success doing…

July 21, 2015
Richard Gale (1932-2015) (Updated)

Richard Gale, who spent much of his career at the University of Pittsburgh, has died. Gale had also held appointments at NYU, Hunter College,…

July 21, 2015
Student Plagiarism in Philosophy Classes

Do you use Turnitin or SafeAssign in your courses to help deter and catch plagiarism? It turns out such software is not very good,…

July 20, 2015
SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

The latest edition of Philosophical Percolations‘ “Saturday Linkorama” is up. As usual, thanks to a special arrangement with the crew there, I present below a sample…

July 20, 2015
Philosophy Via Facebook?

Popular essays, fictions, aphorisms, dialogues, autobiographical reflections and personal letters have historically played a central role in philosophy. So also have public acts of…

July 19, 2015
Peter Manchester (1943-2015)

Peter Manchester, a philosopher at Stony Brook University (formerly SUNY Stony Brook), has died. Professor Manchester started at Stony Brook in 1980 and worked in…

July 19, 2015
A Prospective Grad Student Says “No Thanks”

I am not sure what I expected when I applied to PhD programs. But when April rolled around, I began to ask myself what…

July 18, 2015
APA Announces Recent Award Winners

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the recent winners of four honors: Carol Gould (CUNY Graduate Center) has won the 2015 Joseph B. Gittler Award for…

July 17, 2015
Using Comedy Clips in Philosophy Class

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…

July 17, 2015
Humility in Philosophy

Because the views we espouse are always open to objections and disagreement, our practice at its best nurtures in the philosopher a capacity to…

July 16, 2015
Is Philosophy Too “Stupid” For Women? (updated)

Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change?, a collection of essays edited by Katrina Hutchison (Macquarie) and Fiona Jenkins (ANU), is reviewed by David…

July 15, 2015
Fallacy Ref Calls It

Fallacy Ref is the creation of Glen Welch, a performing arts critic for Red Publication. It’s “a series of image macros featuring an NFL referee calling…

July 15, 2015
Faculty Evaluations of Graduate Students

How does your department evaluate graduate students as they progress through the PhD program? One common method is an annual letter from the department to…

July 15, 2015

Heap of Links

“Equality talk can feel so disorienting! Even among philosophers, it consistently promises more than it delivers” — some clarity might come from looking at the concept's history, argues Teresa Bejan
We’re trained to anticipate objections and couch our claims in caveats, but is that what today’s communication context calls for? — "The caveat is dead," says Joshua Miller
“[H]ow quickly… we get from wanting (of course rightly) to protect women and girls from violence—to actually imposing a new risk of violence upon them” — Sophie Grace Chappell writes to JK Rowling
Is pervasive substantive philosophical disagreement evidence for skepticism about philosophy? — "What kind of skepticism?" asks Duncan Pritchard. Pyrrhonian or Academic?
Some authors of articles published in philosophy journals are not disclosing that they used AI in writing them — and they should, says Amos Wollen
It took a philosopher who was a medical doctor to argue for the social utility of vice. Why? — John Callanan and Blain Neufeld discuss Bernard Mandeville, "the wickedest man in Europe"
“The technologies with which we are increasingly interconnected lack the complex interiority required for real intelligence to arise” — Melanie Challenger on how GPS, AI, etc. threaten bodily intelligence
“The path to becoming a researcher seemed shrouded in mystery; academia felt like a distant realm” — Markus Schrenk shares his journey from first-gen college student to successful, prize-winning philosophy professor
“It’s not as though my… research is informed by my politics. I feel it’s the other way around. My politics is informed by my research” — Lea Ypi is interviewed about politics and universities
Critic: “You, ChatGPT, are a bad Bayesian. Rather than assess an interlocutor’s counterargument as better or worse than expected, you tend to just agree with it.” — ChatGPT: "You're right"
“We have a real need to be needed. And yet many forces… appear to be making us feel redundant. Are we building a world in which no one is particularly necessary? Do we already live in such a world?” — Joshua Rothman on being needed
Dreams can come true it can happen to you — if someone forgets to renew a software license
Explanations are “mental acts, not just facts” — Chaz Firestone looks at Tania Lombrozo's new book on explanation
“What shape is this paradox?” sounds like a category mistake — but mathematicians have an explanation for why the Condorect Paradox is in the shape of a Klein bottle
“The tragedy is that many people today are deprived of both good company and good solitude. They do not feel truly met by others, and they do not feel at home in themselves” — Amir Zadnemat on loneliness (via The Browser)
Is metaphysics about looking for some kind of fundamental level? Does reality come in levels? If so, do they stand in relations of fundamentality? Might it be levels all the way down? Why down? — Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate metaphysics
“Real relationships with people are what’s good for us. And if we don’t get that, even if we don’t know we don’t get it, it’s still bad for us.” — Valerie Tiberius is interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio about the limits of AI "friendship"
Kant thought the indigenous people of the Americas were a race “too weak for hard work, too indolent for assiduous labor and unsuited to any cultivation” — but, as Arnaud Pelletier notes, that not what his source said. So why did Kant say it?
“Proportional to student body size,” the number of students majoring in philosophy at Harvard is “about 10 times the national average” — why is philosophy doing so well there?
A philosophy prof’s mission statement: “reproducing the foundations of Western civilization, one lecture at a time” — one challenge, says Joseph Heath, is that "the two sets of governing principles in our society—liberalism… and capitalism—are second-best arrangements"

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Just chilling on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
In case you can take one anonymous report seriously, I can report that this stuff truly chilled my writing. A paper of mine that is now published in…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I don't see why you would think that I'd be opposed to the position they are defending here? It seems entirely fine to say that GCs have gotten…
Caligula's Goat on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
100%. I was in graduate school right at the time when the now-defunct Feminist Philosophy Blog was just gaining traction, when we were hearing individual stories from women…
Issue on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Is there an issue with upvotes on Daily Nous? I opened the comments to find that the page had already upvoted several comments that I had never read,…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Jon, the letter did not contain any "serious misrepresentation of Stock's work." The only factual inaccuracy (the specific claim regarding the GRA) was corrected in the letter itself.…
Taylor on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Felix, I would have thought you are opposed to the position Bettcher and Saul defend. They seem to be arguing that there is no orthodoxy and that GCs…
Barry Lam on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Or maybe it sums it up.
Jon Pike on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I've read the letter. I don't claim that the letter called for Stock to be fired. Rather, I claim: 1) That the letter was a denunciatory attack on…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Jon, a statement "defending Stock’s right to hold and argue for her views" had already been made—in the very letter you're referring to: We do not say Stock…
Jon Pike on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I agree with 'UK philosopher' that flatly denying any problem exists is disingenuous. Since many here have already dealt with the Tuvel affair, I want to focus on…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Without commenting on the details, I find it funny that, in your analogy, you chose to present the non-GC side as being opposed to marriage equality (and in…
Sophie on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
This article makes some pretty unconvincing moves in my opinion (I am leaving questions about Stock's resignation aside here, since I do not know enough about the matter…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
More generally, that's often the pattern with these types of pieces: They find examples of literature that examine or challenge traditional, dominant conceptions of sex/gender; they then complain…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Going by the abstract alone, it sounds like the entire paper is built on question-begging. That is, the author notices that their preferred definitions and conceptualizations aren't in…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
This characterisation of gender-critical philosophy as being anti-trans and advocating for the removal of human rights is exactly the kind of rhetoric that is a problem. Why is…

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